Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-26

cold mountains. Ais well.' Oh, can
You tell me the mystery? Can YOU
solve it? Tell me how it is that men
and women with aches, and pains, and
sorrows, and losses, and exasperations.
and bercavements, ear get along with
out a sympathizlng Christi | cannot
unde stand it.
But come here to say this morning
that if you really want
DIVINE SYMPATHY
you can have it.
There are two or three passages of
scripture that throb with pity and kind
ness and love. Cast thy burden on
the Lord and he will sustain thee"
Come unto me all We who are weary
and heavy laden, and | will give youV
rest Oh, there are green pastures
where the Heavenly Shepherd leads
the sick and wounded of the flock.
When all the other trees of the orchard
fail. God has one tree of fruit for His
dear children. Though the organ
walls out its requium. there comes af-
terwayd n song, Il chant, an anthem, u
battle-march, a coronation, u victory.
Do you not want the sympathy of Je-
sus ? | offer it this morning to every
man and woman in this house YOU
need Him. Oh, how mach you need
Him!
There was a chaplain in the army
wounded unto death. While lying
there on the field he heard at "A great
distance off some one cry
ing out in great pain .'C>h,
my God!' and he said 70 himself
Il am dying, but | think, perhaps, |
could help that man. Although can't
walk I'll just roll over to where he is"
SO he rolled over in his own blood. and
rolled over the bodies of the slain. and l
rolled on until he came to where the
other man was dying. and put, as it
We're, his wound against that wound,
and his sorrow against that sorrow,
and helped to alleviate it. And SO it
seems to me that Jesus Christ hears
the groan OF our sorrow. the groan Of
our poverty, the groan of our wretch
edness, and comes to the relief. He
comes rolling over sin and SORROW to
the place where we lie on the battle
iteld, and He puts over us the arm of
his everlasting love; and | see that arm
and hand are wounded; and as He puts
that arm over us | can hear Him say:
Il have loved thee with an everlasting
love- Oh that you might feel this
morning the power and coincidence
Of
SYMPATHIzING JESJSi
ln, .. IN. - --.-.
instaliment paid for our redemption
was the demise of Christ. The world
has seen many dark days. About ff-
tpen ago there was b very
dark day when tho sun was eclipsed.
The fowl at MONDAY went to their
perch, and we felt Il gloom rs we
looked at the astronomical wonder. 1t
was a dark day in London when the
plague was at its height. and the dead
with uncovered fees were taken in
open carts and dumped in the trenches.
1t was II dark day when she earth
opened and Lisbon sank; but the dark
est day since the creation of SAe world
was the day when the carnage of Cal
vary was enacted. 1t was about noon
when the curtain began to be drawn.
1t was not the coming on of a night
that soothes and refreshes; it was the
swinging of agreat gloom all around
the heavens.
GOD HUNG IT..
| As when there is a dead one in the
house you bow the shutters or turn the
lattice, Sc God in the afternoon
shut the windows of the world.
As it is appropriate to throw
n black pail upon the coffin rs it passed
along, so 1t was appropriate that every
thing should be sombre that day rs the
great hearse of the earth rolled on.
bearing the corpse of the King.
A mans last hours are ordinarily
kept sacred. However you may have
hated or caricatured n man, when you
hear he is dying silence puts its hand
on your lips. and You would have "A
loathing for the man who could stand
by IA death-bed making faces and
soothing. But Christ in his last hour
connot be left alone. What |! pursuing
him yet after SO long n pursuit? You
have been drinking his tears, do you
want to drink his bloodp They came
up closely, so that. Notwithstanding
the darkness, they n glut their re-
venge with she contortions of his coun-
~tenance. They examine his feet. They
want to feel for themselves whether
those feet are really spiked. They put
out their hands and touch the spikes.
and bring them back
WET WITH BLOOD.
and wipe them on their garments,
If a man is in no pain. if he is pros
pered, If he is well, and he asks you to
come. yon take your time and you say:
II can't come now. I'll come after IA
while. There is no haste" But If he
is in want and trouble you say: II
must 60 right away. must 60 now
To-day Jesus stretches out before you
two wounded hands, and He begs you
to come. Go and you live Stay
away and you die. Oh, that to Him
who bought us, we might give all our
time. and all nur prayers, and all our
successes! | would we could think OF
nothing else, that we could do nothing